Anneka rice biography
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Anneka Rice (born Anne Rice; October 4, 1958) is a British television and radio presenter. Rice adopted the name "Anneka" when she joined the British actors' union Equity, as her birth-name had already been registered with that organisation.
Rice was married to theatre boss Nick Allott, with whom she has two sons. Allott and Rice split in 1992 after she began an affair with TV executive Tom Gutteridge. They parted six months after her third son was born in 1997. In 1994 Rice presented Capital Woman, a weekly women's magazine programme for Carlton Television (ITV), which, like Challenge Anneka, was produced by Gutteridge's company Mentorn. Later she also presented Holiday for BBC One.
Rice decided to quit television to spend time with her three children, and spent five years studying painting at Chelsea College of Art.
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Rice began her television career as a trainee for the BBC World Service. At the age of 19 she moved to Hong Kong, where she presented the news on English language television station TVB Pearl. Upon returning to the UK three years later, she worked as a secretary in the BBC Children's department.
In the 1980s, Rice appeared on CBTV, a Thames TV magazine programme for younger viewers presented by comedy
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Anneka Rice
Welsh observer presenter (born 1958)
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Career
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Anneka Rice
Biography
Born in the Vale of Glamorgan in 1958, Anneka worked briefly for the World Service before moving to Hong Kong where she worked simultaneously as a PR agent, newsreader and dubber of kung-fu films. After a short spell on children's television and hosting a BBC2 series entitled 'Sporting Chance', back in the UK she rose to fame as the Skyrunner on Treasure Hunt. Her outgoing, bubbly personality ensured that she would become the most famous figure in the early years of Channel 4, as she spent most days jumping into rivers, being rescued by seals, or climbing up ladders.
Anneka left Treasure Hunt after the 1988 series, to make the Challenge Anneka series for the BBC. She also made travel series Passport for the Beeb, and early Army reality show Combat for ITV.
She retired from television in the mid-90s, to spend more time with her family and study at the Chelsea College of Art.
In 2006, she fully came out of retirement to host a cookery show on Sunday mornings with Andi Peters against the BBC's Sunday Brunch. Challenge Anneka also returned to our screens, even with Dave the sound man intact.
Trivia
She was voted Rear of the Year 1986, in honour of the standard Treasure Hunt shot. "Interestingly" she was awarded the title jointly with